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<title property="dc:title">Richard Cyganiak's Homepage</title>
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<h1 property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</h1>

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<img src="/2007/01/richard.jpg" alt="A photo of me" />
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<dl>
<dt>Mini bio:</dt>
<dd property="bio:olb" datatype="">Semantic Web evangelist. Researcher and engineer at <a rel="foaf:workplaceHomepage" href="http://www.deri.ie/">DERI Galway</a>, Ireland. Berlin native.</dd>

<dt>Interests:</dt>

<dd rel="foaf:topic_interest">
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Semantic_Web]">Semantic Web</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Linked_Data]">Linked Data</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Resource_Description_Framework]">RDF</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Data_integration]">data integration</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Software_development]">software development</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Go_(game)]">Go</span>,
  <span resource="[dbpedia:Apple_Inc.]">Apple</span>
</dd>

<dt>Weblog:</dt>
<dd><a rel="foaf:weblog" href="http://dowhatimean.net/">dowhatimean.net</a></dd>

<dt>Email:</dt>
<dd><a rel="foaf:mbox" href="mailto:richard@cyganiak.de">richard@cyganiak.de</a></dd>

<dt>Skype:</dt>
<dd property="ov:skypeID">richard.cyganiak</dd>

<dt>Phone:</dt>

<dd rel="foaf:phone" resource="tel:+353-872206327">+353-87-2206327</dd>

<dt>IRC nick:</dt>
<dd property="foaf:nick">cygri</dd>

<dt>Home address:</dt>
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    <span property="v:street-address">15 Greenfields Road</span>, 
    Newcastle,
    <span property="v:locality">Galway</span>,
    <span property="v:country-name">Ireland</span>

    (<a rel="foaf:page" href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=53.286554,-9.071601&amp;spn=0.001613,0.003256&amp;z=18&amp;msid=112557952290247281008.00045d9f04b3ad60a619f">Google Maps</a>)
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</dd>

<dt>Work address:</dt>
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  <span typeof="v:Address">
    Office 102,
    <span property="v:extended-address" datatype=""><a href="http://www.deri.ie/">Digital Enterprise Research Institute</a>, NUI Galway</span>,
    <span property="v:street-address">Lower Dangan</span>,
    <span property="v:locality">Galway</span>,
    <span property="v:country-name">Ireland</span>

    (<a rel="foaf:page" href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=112557952290247281008.00045d9f09460db317d5b&amp;ll=53.290065,-9.074053&amp;spn=0.003226,0.006512&amp;z=17">Google Maps</a>)
  </span>
</dd>

<dt>URI:</dt>
<dd><a rel="owl:sameAs" href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf#cygri">http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf#cygri</a></dd>
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<h2>Web properties</h2>

<ul>

<li><a rel="me foaf:weblog" href="http://dowhatimean.net/"><span property="rdfs:label">My weblog</span></a></li>
<li><img src="/images/foaf.png" alt="" /> <a rel="me rdfs:seeAlso" href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf"><span property="rdfs:label">My FOAF file</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://twitter.com/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in Twitter</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://flickr.com/photos/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in Flickr</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard_Cyganiak/555777583"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in Facebook</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in LinkedIn</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://delicious.com/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in delicious</span></a></li>
<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in Dopplr</span></a></li>

<li><a rel="me foaf:holdsAccount" href="http://www.last.fm/user/cygri"><span property="rdfs:label">Me in last.fm</span></a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Current projects</h2>

<dl rel="foaf:currentProject">
<dt about="#sindice"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://sindice.com/">Sindice.com</a></dt>
<dd about="#sindice" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">An experimental search engine for the Web of Data. The project is lead by <a href="http://g1o.net/">Giovanni Tummarello</a>. I joined in late 2007.</dd>

<dt about="#d2rq"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://d2rq.org/">D2RQ and D2R Server</a></dt>

<dd about="#d2rq" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">An open-source project aimed at making relational databases part of the Web of Data. Originally founded by <a href="http://bizer.de/">Chris Bizer</a>. I have maintained D2RQ and D2R Server since 2005.</dd>

<dt about="#neologism"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://code.google.com/p/neologism/">Neologism</a></dt>
<dd about="#neologism" property="rdfs:comment">An open-source publishing platform for RDFS vocabularies. Currently in Alpha stage. I founded this project in 2008.</dd>

<dt about="#dbpedia"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://dbpedia.org/">DBpedia</a></dt>
<dd about="#dbpedia" property="rdfs:comment">Extracting structured RDF information from Wikipedia. A large community project involving several universities and companies. I have contributed to the original extraction framework and have developed and maintained DBpedia's HTML frontend during much of 2007 and 2008.</dd>

<dt about="#lod"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData">Linking Open Data</a></dt>

<dd about="#lod" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">A community effort to convert existing sources of open data to RDF an make them part of the Semantic Web. I'm a co-founder of the project, together with <a href="http://bizer.de/">Chris Bizer</a>. My main contribution is in helping to establish best practices for publishing RDF on the Web, and maintaining the <a href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/">LOD dataset cloud</a> diagram.</dd>

<dt about="#semantic-sitemaps"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/">Semantic Sitemaps</a></dt>
<dd about="#semantic-sitemaps" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">A proposed standard for improving RDF discovery, originally designed by <a href="http://g1o.net/">Giovanni Tummarello</a>.</dd>

<dt about="#void"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/VoiD">voiD</a></dt>

<dd about="#void" property="rdfs:comment">A work-in-progress RDFS vocabulary for describing the contents of RDF datasets.</dd>

<dt about="#pubby"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/pubby/">Pubby</a></dt>
<dd about="#pubby" property="rdfs:comment">A Linked Data server that exposes RDF data from SPARQL endpoints. Originally developed for DBpedia.</dd>

<dt about="#disco"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/disco/">Disco</a></dt>
<dd about="#disco" property="rdfs:comment">A simple RDF browser. Developed together with Tobias Gauß.</dd>

<dt>Miscellaneous</dt>
<dd>
  <ul>

    <li about="#accept-header-test">(03/2008) <a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://dowhatimean.net/2008/03/what-is-your-rdf-browsers-accept-header">Accept header test for RDF clients</a>: <span property="rdfs:comment">Small utility service to help implementers of content negotiation</span></li>
    <li about="#foaf-geolocator">(03/2006) <a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://dowhatimean.net/2006/03/adding-geo-cordinates-to-your-foaf-file">FOAF geolocator</a>: <span property="rdfs:comment">Add geographic coordinates to your FOAF file</span></li>
  </ul>
</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Past projects</h2>

<dl rel="foaf:pastProject">
<dt about="#statcvs-statsvn"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://statcvs.sourceforge.net/">StatCVS/StatSVN</a></dt>
<dd about="#statcvs-statsvn" property="rdfs:comment">StatCVS generates colorful reports from CVS repository logs. I maintained the open-source project from 2002 to 2008. A port to Subversion, called StatSVN, was created by Jason Kealey and Benoit Xhenseval. They took over maintenance of StatCVS in 2008.</dd>

<dt about="#ng4j"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/">NG4J</a></dt>
<dd about="#ng4j" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">NG4J provided support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/">Named Graphs</a> long before this feature became standard in all RDF stores. The project was initiated by Chris Bizer, and I maintained it throughout most of its lifetime.</dd>

<dt about="#wiqa"><a rel="foaf:homepage" property="foaf:name" href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/WIQA/index.htm">WIQA</a></dt>
<dd about="#wiqa" property="rdfs:comment" datatype="">A policy framework for Web Information Quality Assurance, part of <a href="http://bizer.de/">Chris Bizer</a>'s doctoral thesis. I did parts of the implementation.</dd>

<dt><a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="2008/12/old-stuff.html#projekte">Old stuff</a></dt>
<dd>Some very old projects. Page in German.</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Publications</h2>

<p>I occasionally blog at <a href="http://dowhatimean.net/">dowhatimean.net</a>.</p>

<p>There is a <a href="2008/12/old-stuff.html#dokumente">list of my very old publications</a> (page in German). Once upon a time, I did some blogging in German <a href="/blog/">here</a>.</p>

<h3>Tutorials and HOWTOs</h3>

<dl rev="dc:creator">
<dt>
  <a href="http://videolectures.net/iswc08_heath_hpldw/"><span property="dc:title">How to Publish Linked Data on the Web</span></a> (Video, ISWC 2008)

</dt>
<dd>
  Tom Heath, Michael Hausenblas, Christian Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, Olaf Hartig. 
  Tutorial at ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe. 
  Published at videolectures.net.
</dd>

<dt>
  <a href="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/"><span property="dc:title">How to Publish Linked Data on the Web</span></a>
</dt>
<dd>
  Christian Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, Tom Heath. 
  Tutorial, 2007.
</dd>

<dt>

  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/"><span property="dc:title">Cool URIs for the Semantic Web</span></a>
</dt>
<dd>
  Leo Sauermann, Richard Cyganiak, Danny Ayers, Max Völkel. 
  W3C Interest Group Note, 2008.
</dd>

<dt>
  <a href="http://dowhatimean.net/2007/02/debugging-semantic-web-sites-with-curl"><span property="dc:title">Debugging Semantic Web sites with cURL</span></a>
</dt>
<dd>
  Tutorial, 2007.

</dd>
</dl>


<h3>Peer-reviewed</h3>

<dl class="academic-publications" rev="dc:creator">
  <dt>
    Quality-Driven Information Filtering Using the WIQA Policy Framework
    (JWS, 2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:Article">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>, 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>, 
    <a property="dc:title" rel="swrc:url" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B758F-4SB9DY9-1&amp;_user=103680&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000007922&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=103680&amp;md5=5365a5bc668dadd8c82293401193d3d1">Quality-Driven Information Filtering Using the WIQA Policy Framework</a> (Article in Press).
    <span property="swrc:journal">Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web</span>,
    <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
  </dd>

  <dt>
    Neologism – Easy Vocabulary Publishing
    (SFSW2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:cosmin_basca]"><span property="foaf:name">Cosmin Basca</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:stephane_corlosquet]"><span property="foaf:name">Stéphane Corlosquet</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:sergio_fernandez]"><span property="foaf:name">Sergio Fernández</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:thomas_schandl]"><span property="foaf:name">Thomas Schandl</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">Neologism – Easy Vocabulary Publishing</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAt">4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, Tenerife, Spain</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">June</span> <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/neologism-sfsw2008.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    Semantic Sitemaps – Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web
    (ESWC2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:holger_stenzhorn]"><span property="foaf:name">Holger Stenzhorn</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:renaud_delbru]"><span property="foaf:name">Renaud Delbru</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:stefan_decker]"><span property="foaf:name">Stefan Decker</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:giovanni_tummarello]"><span property="foaf:name">Giovanni Tummarello</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">Semantic Sitemaps – Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">5th European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Spain</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">June</span> <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/sitemaps-eswc2008.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    Browsing Linked Data with Fenfire
    (Demo at LDOW2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:tuukka_hastrup]"><span property="foaf:name">Tuukka Hastrup</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:uldis_bojars]"><span property="foaf:name">Uldis Bojārs</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">Browsing Linked Data with Fenﬁre (Demo)</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), Beijing, China</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">April</span> <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/fenfire-ldow2008.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    Weaving SIOC into the Web of Linked Data
    (LDOW2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:uldis_bojars]"><span property="foaf:name">Uldis Bojārs</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:alexandre_passant]"><span property="foaf:name">Alexandre Passant</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:john_breslin]"><span property="foaf:name">John Breslin</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">Weaving SIOC into the Web of Linked Data</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), Beijing, China</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">April</span> <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/sioc-ldow2008.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    Sindice.com – A Document-oriented Lookup Index for Open Linked Data
    (IJMSO, 2008)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:Article">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:eyal_oren]"><span property="foaf:name">Eyal Oren,</span></span> 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:renaud_delbru]"><span property="foaf:name">Renaud Delbru,</span></span> 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:michele_catasta]"><span property="foaf:name">Michele Catasta,</span></span> 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak,</span></span> 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:holger_stenzhorn]"><span property="foaf:name">Holger Stenzhorn,</span></span> 
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:giovanni_tummarello]"><span property="foaf:name">Giovanni Tummarello</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">Sindice.com – A Document-oriented Lookup Index for Open Linked Data</span>.
    <span property="swrc:journal">International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 3 (1)</span>, 
    <span property="swrc:year">2008</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/sindice-ijmso2008.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

</dl>

<h4>2007</h4>

<dl class="academic-publications" rev="dc:creator">
  <dt>
    DBpedia – A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data
    (ISWC2007)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:soren_auer]"><span property="foaf:name">Sören Auer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:georgi_kobilarov]"><span property="foaf:name">Georgi Kobilarov</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:jens_lehmann]"><span property="foaf:name">Jens Lehmann</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:zachary_ives]"><span property="foaf:name">Zachary Ives</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">DBpedia – A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">November</span> <span property="swrc:year">2007</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/dbpedia-iswc2007.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    D2RQ – Lessons Learned
    (W3C RdfRDB 2007)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:chrisitan_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Chrisitan Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>:
    <a property="dc:title" rel="swrc:url" href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/papers/d2rq-positionpaper/">D2RQ – Lessons Learned</a>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, Boston, USA</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">October</span> <span property="swrc:year">2007</span>

  </dd>

  <dt>
    DBpedia – A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data
    (Poster at CSSW2007)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">DBpedia – A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data (Poster)</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">SABRE Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007), Leipzig, Germany</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">September</span> <span property="swrc:year">2007</span>.
    (<a href="/2008/posters/dbpedia-cssw2007.pdf">Poster</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    RDF Book Mashup – From Web APIs to a Web of Data
    (SFSW2007)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:tobias_gauss]"><span property="foaf:name">Tobias Gauß</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">The RDF Book Mashup – From Web APIs to a Web of Data</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW2007), Innsbruck, Austria</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">June</span> <span property="swrc:year">2007</span>

    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/bookmashup-sfsw2007.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    DBpedia – Querying Wikipedia like a Database
    (Dev Track at WWW2007)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:soren_auer]"><span property="foaf:name">Sören Auer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:georgi_kobilarov]"><span property="foaf:name">Georgi Kobilarov</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">DBpedia – Querying Wikipedia like a Database</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">May</span> <span property="swrc:year">2007</span>.
  </dd>

</dl>

<h4>2006</h4>

<dl class="academic-publications" rev="dc:creator">
  <dt>
    D2R Server – A Semantic Web Front-end to Existing Relational Databases
    (Poster at BXMLT2006)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">D2R Server – A Semantic Web Front-end to Existing Relational Databases (Poster)</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">Berliner XML Tage, Berlin, Germany</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">September</span> <span property="swrc:year">2006</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/d2r-server-bxmlt2006.pdf">PDF</a>)
    (<a href="/2008/posters/d2r-server-bxmlt2006.pdf">Poster</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    DODA 0.1 – An Ontology for Lightweight Integration of Semantic Data Access Technologies
    (SIIK2006)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:giovanni_tummarello]"><span property="foaf:name">Giovanni Tummarello</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_morbidoni]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Morbidoni</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:michele_nucci]"><span property="foaf:name">Michele Nucci</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">DODA 0.1 – An Ontology for Lightweight Integration of Semantic Data Access Technologies</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">1st International Workshop on Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery (SIIK 2006), Yogyakarta, Indonesia</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">December</span> <span property="swrc:year">2006</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/doda-siik2006.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    The DODA Ontology – Lightweight Integration of Semantic Data Access Technologies
    (SWAP2006)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_morbidoni]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Morbidoni</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:giovanni_tummarello]"><span property="foaf:name">Giovanni Tummarello</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:michele_nucci]"><span property="foaf:name">Michele Nucci</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">The DODA Ontology – Lightweight Integration of Semantic Data Access Technologies</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop (SWAP 2006), Pisa, Italy</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">December</span> <span property="swrc:year">2006</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/doda-swap2006.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    D2R Server – Publishing Releational Databases on the Semantic Web
    (Poster at ISWC2006)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">D2R Server – Publishing Releational Databases on the Semantic Web (Poster)</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, USA</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">November</span> <span property="swrc:year">2006</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/d2r-server-iswc2006.pdf">PDF</a>)
    (<a href="/2008/posters/d2r-server-iswc2006.pdf">Poster</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>
    D2R Server – Publishing Relational Databases on the Web as SPARQL Endpoints
    (Dev Track at WWW2006)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">D2R Server – Publishing Relational Databases on the Web as SPARQL Endpoints</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, Scotland</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">May</span> <span property="swrc:year">2006</span>.
  </dd>

</dl>

<h4>2005</h4>

<dl class="academic-publications" rev="dc:creator">
  <dt>
    The TriQL.P Browser – Filtering Information using Context-, Content- and Rating-Based Trust Policies
    (SWPW2005)
  </dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:tobias_gauss]"><span property="foaf:name">Tobias Gauß</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:and_oliver_maresch]"><span property="foaf:name">and Oliver Maresch</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">The TriQL.P Browser – Filtering Information using Context-, Content- and Rating-Based Trust Policies</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">Semantic Web and Policy Workshop at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Ireland</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">November</span> <span property="swrc:year">2005</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/triqlp-swpw2005.pdf">PDF</a>)
  </dd>

  <dt>NG4J – Named Graphs API for Jena
    (Poster, ESWC2005)</dt>
  <dd typeof="swrc:InProceedings">
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:christian_bizer]"><span property="foaf:name">Christian Bizer</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="#me"><span property="foaf:name">Richard Cyganiak</span></span>,
    <span rel="swrc:author" resource="[_:rowland_watkins]"><span property="foaf:name">Rowland Watkins</span></span>:
    <span property="dc:title">NG4J – Named Graphs API for Jena (Poster)</span>.
    <span property="ov:presentedAd">2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005), Heraklion, Greece</span>,
    <span property="swrc:month">May</span> <span property="swrc:year">2005</span>.
    (<a rel="swrc:url" href="/2008/papers/ng4j-eswc2005.pdf">PDF</a>)
    (<a href="/2008/posters/ng4j-eswc2005.pdf">Poster</a>)
  </dd>

</dl>


<h2>Talks and slides</h2>

<p>@@@ Some day I will upload all my presentations to SlideShare. For now, just some notes.</p>

<ul>
<li>See publication list above</li>
<li>Linked Data in 7 Easy Steps, Tutorial, ISWC2008</li>
<li>Using the Web of Data, WOD-PD 2008</li>

<li>There's more than US-ASCII, lightning talk at ESWC2008</li>
<li>Sindice.com, lightning talk at LOD Gathering, ESWC2008</li>
<li>Sindice.com, Linked Data Planet, 2008</li>
<li>Web of Data, XTech 2008</li>
<li>Linking Open Data, New York Semantic Web Meetup, 2008</li>
<li>D2RQ, W3C RDF2RDB XG, 2008</li>
<li>Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL, DERI Reading Group, 2007</li>
<li>D2R Server, JUC 2006</li>
<li>D2RQ, HP Labs, 2005</li>

</ul>


<h2>Posters</h2>

<p>All of these are made with <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/">OmniGraffle</a>. On some, I have contributed not as an author but only by creating the poster itself.</p>

<p class="posters">
<a href="/2008/posters/dbpedia-cssw2007.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/dbpedia-cssw2007.png" title="DBpedia – A Nucleus for the Web of Open Data (CSSW2007)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>
<a href="/2008/posters/lod-eswc2007.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/lod-eswc2007.png" title="Linking Open Data (ESWC2007)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>
<a href="/2008/posters/d2r-server-bxmlt2006.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/d2r-server-bxmlt2006.png" title="D2R Server – A Semantic Web Front-end to Existing Relational Databases (BXMLT2006)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>
<a href="/2008/posters/d2r-server-iswc2006.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/d2r-server-iswc2006.png" title="D2R Server – Publishing Relational Databases on the Web (ISWC2006)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>
<a href="/2008/posters/ng4j-eswc2005.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/ng4j-eswc2005.png" title="NG4J – Named Graphs API for Jena (ESWC2005)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>

<a href="/2008/posters/d2rq-iswc2004.pdf"><img src="/2008/posters/d2rq-iswc2004.png" title="D2RQ – Treating Non-RDF Databases as Virtual RDF Graphs (ISWC2004)" alt="Poster thumbnail" /></a>
</p>


<h2>Event organizer</h2>

<ul rel="swc:holdsRole">
  <li typeof="swc:MetadataChair">Metadata co-chair, <span rel="swc:isRoleAt" resource="http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc/2009"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/">International Semantic Web Conference 2009</a> (ISWC2009)</span></li>
  <li typeof="swc:WorkshopOrganiser">Co-organizer, <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampOxford2008">VoCamp Oxford 2008</a></span></li>

  <li typeof="swc:WorkshopOrganiser">Co-organizer, <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008">VoCamp Galway 2008</a></span></li>
  <li typeof="swc:MetadataChair">Metadata co-chair, <span rel="swc:isRoleAt" resource="http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc/2008"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/">International Semantic Web Conference 2008</a> (ISWC2008)</span></li>
  <li typeof="swc:WorkshopOrganiser">Co-organizer, <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Wiki/SemDeskHandsOn2007April">Semantic Desktop Hands-on Workshop 2007</a></span></li>
</ul>

<h2>PC memberships</h2>

<ul rel="swc:holdsRole">
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2009/">Linked Data on the Web</a> (LDOW2009)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Conference: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/conference">I-Semantics 2009</a></span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://sdow2008.semanticweb.org/">Social Data on the Web</a> (SDoW2008)</span></li>

<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Conference: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://i-know.tugraz.at/previous_conferences/i_semantics_08">I-Semantics 2008</a></span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/">Linked Data on the Web</a> (LDOW2008)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/">4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web</a> (SFSW2008)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.okkam.org/IRSW2008">Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web</a> (IRSW2008)</span></li>

<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Conference: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://aksw.org/SocialSemanticWebConference">SABRE Conference on Social Semantic Web</a> (CSSW2007)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Workshop: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2007/">3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web</a> (SFSW2007)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Conference: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/juc2007/">Jena User Conference 2007</a> (JUC2007)</span></li>
<li typeof="swc:PCMember">Conference: <span rel="swc:isRoleAt"><a property="rdfs:label" rel="foaf:homepage" href="http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/">Jena User Conference 2006</a> (JUC2006)</span></li>

</ul>

<h2>Data</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frichard.cyganiak.de%2F"><img src="images/sw-rdfa-orange.png" alt="[RDFa logo]" title="RDFa data extracted from this homepage" /></a></p>

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